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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.
He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.
Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
He carried the tub from the back of the house where it hung from a nail in the wall.
`` My dress needs some work on it ''.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
`` You take it easy, boy '', Clayton whispered.
You take it easy, your time will come ''.
He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.
I have to think about it.
`` They'll trample it down.
I don't want to leave it ''.
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
That's what you wanted, isn't it??
And you stand by like a fool and let him do it ''
Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.
But it at least offered him a chance for living.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.

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